American - Novelist | November 26, 1943 -
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
Marilynne Robinson
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I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.
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It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.
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Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.
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I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.
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Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
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My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
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I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.
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When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
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I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
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I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
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I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.
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